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Anyways,jokes aside,when a man beds a girl for sport the lady involved typically equates the sex to be 'love';and you can't say 'I love you' to a chick you're just sexing without,ahem,risking a severe blowback when the girl divines that you didn't mean it.Black Holes don't compare to that kind of scorn.

Which is why Kirk tried to evade the desired answer.He only suceeded in falling off a cliff,although not a literal one in that case.

I think women probably say that to him often, and that is the problem for me with the surprised answer. He's expecting women to fall in love with him; it's why he tries so hard. In the book, Jim is giving Gaila a night to remember, so to speak.

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I took the "That is so wierd" reaction to mean this is not the first time a girl has said that to Kirk. This pattern likely began not long after wrecking his uncle's convertable and getting arrested-- everyone loves the bad boy. I think his surprised was because she's the first space alien who's ever said that to him. Based on The Original Series, this appears to be the first in a long line of beautiful extraterrestrial women to fall in love with Kirk in after a short period of time. Its a character trait, at this point, like Chekov's "nuclear wessels".

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As far as I know, Jim said "That's weird" to Spock in the Jellyfish and "That is so weird" to Gaila, and that's all.

I just saw the movie again tonight, and clearly Jim is not referring to Gaila saying she loved him. He starts to explain what he meant; but before he can, Uhura comes in.

I don't think so.

It's the clichee of women overprojecting their feelings for what clearly is only a fling or at best an affair (i can't see young Kirk entering a serious relationship at this phase in his life) so she said the L-word to him and he was clearly taken by suprise.

So his weird line was just the first thing that came to his mind as a way to gain more time to think of something appropriate to say to either claim his "love" without actually saying it or doing the "manly" thing and clarifiying that he just wants an affair with no strings attached (which might get him hit and thrown out of the room in his undies).

Before that came to pass Uhura enters the room and we get on with the movie.